Portrait of Mrs. Fowler, half-length, in a blue dress, with a white shawl and bonnet, feigned oval

Details

Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A. (1734-1797)
Portrait of Mrs. Fowler, half-length, in a blue dress, with a white shawl and bonnet, feigned oval
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Literature

B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London and New York, 1968, I, p. 196.

Exhibited

possibly Derby, 1883, no.33 (Mrs Fowler, 26 x 30 in., lent by Mrs. Richard Hope).

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Lot Essay

Nicolson (op. cit.) records the sitter appearing in Wright's account books circa 1760. Wright also refers to a lady of this name in a letter to his sister from Rome, 4th May 1775: 'Make compts. to Mrs. Fowler & to her most ingenious & agreeable daughter...'

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